Pixel Art Details

Always take care of your bark and you will impress the troll ladies.....

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For more than a month now, I've been trying to create something with pixels that looks like it was done in Ink. I love the way how sharp and distictinve this medium looks on paper.

After a few failures and enough testing I managed to get something on the canvas that was worth working on. I basically started with black and white and added 3 more colours to smooth it all out... merely ungodly amounts of AA to be honest. :)

This took me a lot longer to finish than the stuff I usual do, but it was a ton of fun nevertheless.

wow, looks amazing!!! :) it sort of reminds me of groot from guardians of the galaxy haha :D

the symmetricity also makes it look a little more abstract and fresh:)

which leads me to a question: hasn't symmetric pixelart sort of become your signature thing? :D because I have been noticing, that your other works also feature symmetricity in some way ^^ either way your pieces of pixelart are very recognizable and unique :D seeing stuff like this really motivates me to keep going. again, great job

Well, sorry but I dont like. To be a human face is disproportionate, too to be a goat or an animal like that, if it otherwise, has the widely spaced eyes . In any case, good details / patterns, but not complement the picture and do not help create a strong concept, as should use those things

I think that many of us have such things. Sometimes there are no ideas for the next picture or just want to experiment with some style and you can just relax, with an abstract painting without thinking about the end result.

Your are right. I tried to work with more hatching around the large shadows, but it really made the piece look too busy in the end. And, of course, it was harder to get a good texture that way.

Haha, that is awesome. I absolutely didn't do that on purpose. It's amazing what you found in there, it made me spill out my coffee all over the screen. Especially that Siddharta thing cracks me up! The other finds are too cool as well. The female thing reminds me of some kind of japanese mythical creature.

Keeping the highlight is more of a style choice, I didn't want to break up the symmetry.